On 6/27/06, Michel Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Le 27 juin 2006 à 6:00, dolphinling a écrit :
> What's wrong with
>
> <div>
> <img src="">
> <p>This is the caption.</p>
> </div>
>
> ? That's how I think of it semantically, and I don't see it as
> being common enough to warrant a separate element of its own.
The problem is that this means nothing. The paragraph could be the
caption as much as it could be an the excerpt of an article with a
small category logo at the top, or it could be an image inserted for
presentational purpose or something else. There is no way to
disambiguate any of this with your markup. The fact that they are
together does not mean that it is a caption, it somewhat convey that
the two are related, but in what way?
What's wrong with
<div>
<img src="">
<p>This is the caption.</p>
</div>
How about an anchor with rel="caption":
<a rel="caption" href="#caption1"><img src="x.jpg"/></a>
<span id="caption1">man bites dog</span>
or
<img id="img1" src="x.jpg"/>
<span id="caption1"><a rel="caption" rev="#img1">man bites dog</caption></span>
The latter has the advantage that you can put another <a> element
around the image (HTML4 prohibits nesting iirc).
This way requires no new elements or attributes, just a new
LinkType[1]. Also if you define other LinkTypes, you could express the
other relationships Michel identified, e.g. you could have a Linktype
for "excerpt of an article with a> small category logo at the top."
Hugh
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstraction.html#dt_LinkTypes
